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22 Jul

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GM ladies and gentleman and welcome back to B&C, the newsletter that'll have you going, huh that was mildly amusing. Brought to you by the brilliant idiots Nat and V.

Here's the breakdown for today:

Nat's Picks for the week.
V's Picks for the week.
Something to bless your inbox.

Nat's picks of the week:

One of the greatest photo collections I've ever seen. By the photographer and artist, Kerry Skarbakka.

The new Shibuya artwork that just dropped 🔥🔥🔥

Shibuya is a collaborative storytelling project by Pplpleasr the artist behind many iconic NFT projects such as the Uniswap 3D unicorn. Her new project centers around giving token holders the ability to decide how an animated series she is creating will progress.

At the end of every episode, viewers are greeted with two beautiful paths which they vote on to decide the fate of the main character, Mirai. Follow their page, visit the website, and honestly, buy their pass. One of the most exciting projects I've seen to date.

Voting has concluded! The fox has taken the lead once again, as decided by the community.
The results were:
Fox - 41.04%
Drop - 37.74%
Lady - 21.22%
Head to to unstake and claim your bonus $WRAB if you voted for the fox. On to Chapter 3 🦊
— Shibuya (@shibuyaxyz)
Jun 17, 2022

Here's Emily (aka Pplpleasr) talking about the revolutionary nature of fundraising with crypto.

Digital artist Emily Yang, aka pplpleasr, talks about why it was easier to fundraise in the film industry using crypto and NFTs trib.al/9OvNsNp
— Bloomberg Live (@BloombergLive)
Jul 19, 2022

V's picks of the week:

Mood...

Look!! The wait is finally over!! Pretty video 🤩🤩🤩.

We are proud to announce a giant leap forward for Ethereum scaling and ZK innovation.
Introducing Polygon #zkEVM, the first EVM-equivalent ZK L2.
Today we’re releasing a complete implementation, fully open-source, and we’re just getting started.
[1/6]
— Polygon - MATIC 💜 (@0xPolygon)
Jul 20, 2022

Matic's been coming out with some HEAT lately. I don't know who is on their graphics team but if they made a theme park from this ad I would 100p get a ticket.

Here's a summary of their new release:

ZK EVM inherits the security of Ethereum while increasing throughput and radically reducing fees. (zk stand for zero knowledge proofs)
EVM-equivalence means that any smart contract or dev tool that you can use on Ethereum can be used on Polygon
Like most L2 solutions, zkEVM "rolls up" a batch of transactions and uses a ZKP to validate those transactions on Ethereum.

Polygon zkEVM is permissionless–anyone can use it. It’s also open-source, meaning you can trust the code, rather than trusting Polygon. Curious to see if these scaling solutions catch on in the coming years or whether competing chains will make them obsolete natively. We shall see.

"Step by step walk the thousand-mile road.

Miyamoto Mushashi

Here's something to bless your inbox: The Japanese poster of Empire Strikes Back 😎

See y'all next week,

V and Nat

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